# Amazon Best Sellers Scraper — Product Research & Ranks (`hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers and Most Wished For: rank, ASIN, title, price, rating, review count and image. Built for Amazon FBA and e-commerce product research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Hichem Ben Moussa](https://apify.com/hichemdev) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Marketing
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Amazon Best Sellers Scraper — Product Research & Ranks

Scrape Amazon's **Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers and Most Wished For** charts — **rank, ASIN, title, price, rating, review count and image** — across any category and marketplace.

Built for **Amazon FBA sellers and e-commerce product research**: spot what's selling, what's rising, and where the gaps are.

### What you can do with it

- 📈 **Product research** — find winning products by category and rank
- 🚀 **Trend spotting** — Movers & Shakers surfaces fast risers early
- 🕵️ **Competitor tracking** — monitor rivals' ASINs and ranks over time
- 💰 **Price & review monitoring** — run on a schedule and diff the results

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `category` | string | Category slug, e.g. `electronics`, `toys-and-games`, `kitchen`, `beauty`. |
| `reportType` | select | Best Sellers · New Releases · Movers & Shakers · Most Wished For. |
| `domain` | string | Marketplace, e.g. `amazon.com`, `amazon.co.uk`, `amazon.de`. |
| `startUrls` | array | Chart URLs to scrape directly (overrides the above). |
| `maxProducts` | integer | Max products (each chart holds up to 100). |

#### Example

```json
{ "category": "kitchen", "reportType": "movers-and-shakers", "domain": "amazon.com", "maxProducts": 100 }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "rank": 1,
  "asin": "B08JHCVHTY",
  "title": "blink plus plan with monthly auto-renewal",
  "price": 11.99,
  "priceText": "$11.99",
  "currency": "$",
  "rating": 4.4,
  "reviewCount": 280404,
  "category": "electronics",
  "reportType": "bestsellers",
  "image": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/....png",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JHCVHTY"
}
```

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull live via the Apify API.

### Notes

- **Prices are returned in the marketplace's own currency.** Amazon prices by visitor location, so the Actor pins the locale to the marketplace you chose — `amazon.com` returns USD, `amazon.co.uk` returns GBP, and so on.
- A **residential proxy is strongly recommended**; Amazon serves a bot check to datacenter IPs at scale. The Actor rotates IPs and retries automatically.
- Each chart is split across 2 pages of 50; the Actor walks both up to `maxProducts`.

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Amazon category slug, e.g. "electronics", "toys-and-games", "kitchen", "beauty", "pet-supplies", "books".

## `reportType` (type: `string`):

Which Amazon chart to scrape.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Marketplace to scrape, e.g. amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.co.jp.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Amazon chart URLs to scrape directly. Overrides the category and chart above.

## `maxProducts` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scrape (each chart holds up to 100).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxy is strongly recommended — Amazon serves a bot check to datacenter IPs at scale.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "electronics",
  "reportType": "bestsellers",
  "domain": "amazon.com",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxProducts": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped items as JSON.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Browse results in the Apify Console.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "category": "electronics",
    "domain": "amazon.com",
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxProducts": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "category": "electronics",
    "domain": "amazon.com",
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxProducts": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "electronics",
  "domain": "amazon.com",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxProducts": 30
}' |
apify call hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hichemdev/amazon-bestsellers-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/hRMH2hieimqVOn7TY/builds/nsBGt4SfKWgfYnKm6/openapi.json